March 2015 – At an event held concurrently with the opening of the Nvidia GTC conference, the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HAS) Foundation, released their Version 1.0 Specification. The spec has three major components and is targeted to address the design and programming of mixed CPU and specialty processors (GPU, DSP, etc) systems. These computing systems…
September 9, 2014, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—The underlying tools and infrastructure software allow users to get high-performance storage to match to their compute and data needs. The Lustre file system allows for both enterprise and cloud configurations to support the storage requirements needed in the datacenter. The cloud version is optimized for AWS (EC2)…
September 19, 2013, SNIA Analytics and Big Data Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research presented the topic “Why big data changes how to think about enterprise storage”. The fundamental drivers for acquisition, architecture, and administration have to change. The nature of data is changing, and a look at the differences between high-performance computing…
March 19, 2013, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Sarah Tariq from Nvidia described the intersection of high-performance computing and gaming. At first glance, there appears to be no common areas between the two areas, but the reality is a lot of functional overlap. Parallel computers emerged as an alternative to higher clock speeds in the…